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Pfizer says it has second doses of coronavirus vaccines for Americans, even if there s no stockpile
From CNN’s Amanda Sealy
A pharmacist prepares to administer the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a senior living community in Falls Church, Virginia, on December 30, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Vaccine maker Pfizer says it has second doses of coronavirus vaccines ready to ship as needed – something that should reassure governors infuriated by the federal government’s announcement that it does not have a reserve stockpile of vaccine doses.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday there was no reserve stockpile, even though the Trump administration has been telling states for weeks it is holding onto second doses of vaccine to make sure people who get one dose can get the second shot on time.
Biden Plans to Add Thousands of Vaccination Sites, Including Pharmacies
President-elect Joe Biden plans to add thousands of community vaccination sites, including pharmacies, across the United States to combat the CCP virus. He is also seeking to establish 100 federally-supported vaccination centers by the end of his first month in office.
“If we’re getting more people vaccinated, then we need more vaccination sites. That’s why we will harness the full resources of the federal government to establish thousands of community vaccination centers,” the former vice president said Friday evening.
He said that on his first day in office, he will instruct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to start setting up the centers.
Biden appoints Indian American Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General ANI | Updated: Jan 07, 2021 21:25 IST
Wilmington [US], January 7 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday nominated Indian-origin Vanita Gupta to serve as Associate Attorney General of the United States making her the first woman of colour to serve in this role.
Gupta becomes the latest addition to Biden s team that features Indian Americans such as former US surgeon general Vivek Murthy. A former Acting Assistant Attorney General and one of the best-known and most respected civil rights attorneys in America, Gupta has spent her career fighting successfully for greater equity in our justice system and advancing the rights and dignity of every American, read the Biden-Harris transition Website.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ As pandemic deaths and infections soar across the United States, a new National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan from The Rockefeller Foundation calls on the U.S. government to massively scale up Covid-19 testing to 300 million per month for students, teachers, and staff in order to reopen and keep open America s nearly 100,000 public schools by March. The Plan,
, lays out a new plan for the largest domestic testing scale-up to date and proposes 14 executive actions for the current and incoming administrations to take in order to rapidly alter the trajectory of the pandemic in the United States. Testing all U.S. public K-12 public schools would cost $42.5 billion, or $8.5 billion per month for the remainder of the school year (February-June 2021).
December 14, 2020 by NNPA
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden announced key nominations and appointments of his health team, including Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, COVID-19 Equity Task Force Chair; Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Adviser to the President on COVID-19, who will also continue in his role as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Jeff Zients, Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President. In addition, former White House and Pentagon senior Advisor Natalie Quillian will serve as Deputy Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response.